The Commission on Science and Literature (CoSciLit) was founded at the International Congress on the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Manchester in 2013 and launched the following year with its own conference in Athens. One of several commissions of the Division of History of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST), CoSciLit aims to bring together both scholars and scientists from around the world to advance the study of science and literature in dialogue with one another. To date we have held four international conferences in Athens (2014), Pöllau (2016), Paris (2018) and Girona (2022). In addition, we have organised regular symposia on the island of Syros in Greece, contributed to the ICHST Congresses in Rio de Janeiro (2017) and Prague (online 2022), and run a series of online lectures on ‘Literature and the Pandemics in Historical Perspectives’ (2021).

Contact

To contact CoSciLit, please email the President, your nearest regional representative or the appropriate member of the Executive Committee.